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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>pjmanney<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:58 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [extropy-chat] Research
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<P>Thanks Jef!</P>
<P>Crucial piece of info: these nanobots are still OUTSIDE the body at this
point. And there are a whole lot of them ready to be deployed. To a
whole lot of people.</P>
<P>PJ<BR></P>
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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>pjmanney<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:20
AM<BR><B>To:</B> wta-talk@transhumanism.org;
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transhumantech@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [extropy-chat]
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<P>I'm working on the book and I've left a crucial,
climactic section quite vague that I need to start to flesh
out in detail. You know the kind of vague I mean: hero neutralizes
the threat and action ensues. Only I was naughty and eager to just
get writing and hadn't completed my research for it. So this
is a theoretical question for all you engineers and physicists and just
plain smart folk:</P>
<P>What would theoretically destroy nanobots? I guess the
more specific question would be: what disassembles diamondoid
nanostructures at an atomic level and reverts them back to harmless
carbon atoms? Or simply screws with them enough to render
them neutral/inactive/harmless? To give you some possibly
important detail, these are medicinal bots and would be used
internally in the brain. They would need to pass the blood/brain
barrier after ingestion. And there are a whole lot of
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<P><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Remove their external
energy source, or if they're using the host metabolism then possibly
poison it (without killing host), or relocate their energy source as a
means of controlling their behavior, or...) (they're too small to carry
their own fuel, right?)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Modify their programming
(with a virus, or by communicating with their controller, or lots of
other possibilities here) to either stop them or convert them to some
useful purpose. Exploit some bug in their programming in an
unexpected way,.Force them out by infiltrating their command and control
structure with similar, but benign nanobots.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Find and activate the
secret failsafe or deadman switch built in by their
designer.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Give them a decoy host
brain and when they're all there, destroy it. (Sorry, I'm sure
that's too simple.)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I don't know of any
chemical means to dissolve the diamondoid atomic bonds without killing
the host, but I am not a chemist.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>-
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